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Discipline, as generally understood, ap- pears to have vanished. Even persons in authority are found quarrelling among themselves in many places, thus vitiating the atmosphere in which education is being imparted to our youth.
The situation appears to be deteriorating rapidly, states the report, and there is evidently an urgent need for developing a better sense of values and qualities of character among the youth.
Among the broad conclusions of the Committee are the following:
(A) The teaching of moral and spiritual values in educational institutions is desirable, and specific provision for doing so is feasible within certain limitations.
(ii) It would be very desirable, as suggested by the University Education Commission (Radhakrishnan Commission) to start work every day in all educational institutions with a few minutes of silent meditation either in the classroom or in a common hall.
(iii) Suitable books should be prepared for all stages-from primary to the university--which should describe briefly in a comparative and sympathetic manner the basic ideas of all religions as well as the essence of the lives and teachings of the great religious leaders.
GOOD MANNERS
(iv) Special stress should be laid on teaching good manners and promoting the virtues of reverence and courtesy which are badly needed in our society.
(v) Some form of physical training should be compulsory at every stage.
(B) The context of such education in moral and spiritual values should include a comparative and sympathetic study of the lives and teachings of great religious leaders and at later stages their ethical systems and philosophies. The inclusion of good manners, social service and true patriotism should be continuously stressed at all stages.
(i) We regard it most important that in any educational scheme, the home should not be left out; and we suggest that through mass media, the faults and drawbacks of our homes both in the matter of their physical orderliness and their psychological atmosphere, should be pointed out, and instructions should be given on how these can be removed.
The report emphasises that very much depends upon the atmosphere that only good teachers can create and therefore great care has to be taken in the recruitment and training of teachers which is too low to attract talented persons to the profession. It is necessary, says the report, to improve the general status of the teacher in society and to restore to him something of that honour and respect which he commanded in olden times.
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